T.T.O.S. southwestern division THE SOUTHWESTERN LIMITED VOL. 34 NO. 1 January/February/March 2016 LARRY PEARSON, PRESIDENT CALVIN SMITH, EDITOR MIKE STELLA, ASSISTANT EDITOR MIKE ROMAN, MEET PHOTOGRAPHER MARTIN FOLB, SPECIAL EVENTS PHOTOGRAPHER Spring Forward!! Daylight Savings Begins March 12th -- Set your clocks 1 hour ahead on March 11th so you will be on time for the March 12, 2017 Meet 2017 Nor-Cal Spring Cal Stewart Classic Sunday ONLY March 5 San Ramon Marriott Hotel 2600 Bishop Drive San Ramon, CA \Early Bird Schedule Saturday, March 4th 6 pm No Host Reception 7pm Dinner with Auction Fun and Games Sunday, March 5th Meet Schedule 7am Trading Hall Setup Vendors Only 9am TCA Members Only for Trading 10am General Admissions for Trading 4pm Meet is closed -- Pack up & go home For Information Contact Mark Boyd 510-886-6699 or e-mail: tcqeditor@att.net p1 2017 Nor-Cal Spring C-S March 12, 2017 SWD Mee p2-3 President s Message p3 Officers & Board of Directors p4-6 Cal-Stewart 2016 at Fairplex p7 The January 2017 Meet p8 The February 2017 Meet p9 Glendale Civic Auditorium p10 CA Rail Road Museum Oral History Project: Robert Welk p11 Auction Needs Help Club Meets p12 SWD Meet & Evemt Dates 2017 Welcome New Members Your March Postcard March Open House Meet SELLERS: All Tables $5.00 Each! Call Hollis Cotton at 818-590-0553 AUCTION SELLERS: Call George Blanch at 818-590-8238 Sunday, March 12, 2017 Open House Family Meet 10 a.m. Free Parking TABLE SALES DRAWING AUCTION LAYOUTS FOOD Family Fun Repair Clinic Test Track 50/50 Drawing 11:45 a.m. Auction 12:00 Noon Snack Bar Operating Layouts to run your trains Arcadia Masonic Center 50 W. Duarte Rd, Arcadia, CA 91007 SELLERS AND MEMBERS: 10 a.m. EAST Side Door Bring Resale Permit copy and Show 2016 T.T.O.S. SWD Badge Public: 10 a.m. $5 Children under 21 free with paid adult This Is Your March 12, 2017 Postcard Reminder!!!!! See YOU at the March SWD Train Meet!!!!!
PRESIDENT S MESSAGE LARRY PEARSON, President T.T.O.S. Southwestern Division 2016-2017 1108 West Palm Ave., Burbank, CA 91506 (818) 848-2653 (mornings after 8:00 a.m.) Please be advised that the following article is comprised solely of my own thoughts, opinions, and experiences, and does not necessarily convey the beliefs and thoughts of the T.T.O.S. Southwestern Division (SWD), and its Members and Officers, or the editor and publisher of The Southwestern Limited. Call me at the above phone number in the mornings after 8:00am if you need to get in touch with me. Call, I love to talk. CAL-STEWART 2017 NOVEMBER 17(SETUP), 18, 19, 2017 Your Executive Board voted unanimously at our February 15 th Board Meeting to move our Fall Cal- Stewart Meet to the Glendale Civic Auditorium (GCA). We were able to get our usual weekend dates, the weekend before Thanksgiving, November 17 (Setup), 18, and 19. We will be using the upper and lower levels, giving us a total of 25,000 square feet of usable space. Load-in for Friday s setup works very well for both levels. Parking is free during Friday s Setup and is only $6 all day in their nearby parking structure (no in-and-out privileges), which is half what we have been paying in recent years. Or you can find free parking on nearby residential streets or metered parking for 75 cents an hour in a public parking lot south of Mountain Street. Attendees can bring in their own food and drink without restriction. We can rent their kitchen and bring someone in to prepare food or we can arrange for a food truck. We haven t decided what to do on this yet. The cost of the facility is within our budget. The pricing structure for the facility is by the hour, which is unusual. There are no Hotels in the immediate vicinity, but there are plenty of hotels south of the 134 in Glendale and Eagle Rock. We do not plan to have a Host Hotel this year. We will provide a list of nearby hotels in the registration brochure. There are several nice restaurants in Montrose, which is north of the GCA. We used to use the lower level for our monthly meets for a period when Gary Keck was President of our Division. The Glendale Toy Show uses the upper level for their January and August shows. Why did we make this change? Fairplex was affordable and was plenty big enough for our needs. 2 But we received many, many complaints about their parking setup for attendees. They have absolutely no consideration for the needs of disabled attendees, and we have a lot of them. Everyone parks in a large lot (lot 17) at least one-quarter mile away and has to take a shuttle to the hall. Fairplex management offers no remedy for their disregard for the needs of disabled attendees. Due to the quantity of complaints, we decided not to try this again. But where to go? We met with and toured six possibilities: Arcadia Masonic Center, Universal City (both the Hilton and the Sheraton), Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel, Pasadena Convention Center, and the Glendale Civic Auditorium. The Arcadia Masonic Center, where we hold our monthly Meets, is about 10,000 sq. ft in three isolated rooms. This configuration does not work for us and it is too small. Universal City is extremely expensive in every respect, and therefore would never work for us. The Burbank Marriott is too small and much too expensive for our needs. Pasadena is unchanged from why we left it in the first place, namely, too small or too expensive and we would have to move our Cal-Stewart Meet to December. Last, we toured the Glendale Civic Auditorium. They had our dates, the size we needed, and the cost was affordable. So we paid the deposit and signed a contract on Friday, February 17 th. It is very easy to get to off the 134 Freeway. Put the dates on your calendar and plan to attend. CAL-STEWART 2016 REPORT As reported previously, we were unable to secure an acceptable contract with the Ontario Convention Center for our 2016 Cal-Stewart Meet. The people who wanted us there and arranged for a great deal for the hall and all the other costs and the Friday night welcome dinner had moved on and the new people there were offering no deals. And then they booked our hall to another group on our dates. We contacted FAIRPLEX and found that all the halls were available on our dates. We booked Building 6, a 33,600 square foot building, in January, 2016. We were planning on a 300 table meet, and this hall size would leave little room for layouts. Hollis Cotton and Mike Stella were co-chairman. Hollis worked on the hall layout and Mike made the hotel and restaurant arrangements. As November approached, table sales and pre-registrations fell far short of expectations, for reasons we still don t understand.
Was it FAIRPLEX? Was it the economy? We ended up with about 210 table sales and added layouts to fill the empty space. Overall, we lost about $1700 on the Meet. Fortunately, many large sellers reported great table sales. We had an unusually large number of walk-in registrations on Saturday. Here is a list of our workers to thank for Cal-Stewart 2016: Co-Chairmen: Hollis Cotton and Mike Stella Pre-Registration and On-Site Registration: Bruce and Elaine Lazarus, plus many volunteers. Liaison with FAIRPLEX: Hollis Cotton Hall floor plans: Hollis Cotton Hotel and Restaurant arrangements: Mike Stella Registration Brochure design: Mike Stella, Phyllis Smith Auction: Rich Kobliner, Manager; George Blanch, Auctioneer; Auction clerking: Bill Elliott, Emmett Van Ness; Cashier: Tony Deneve. Layout Coordinator: Hollis Cotton Special Display: Scout-O-Rama by Mike Stella; Live Steam Hudson by Jerry Miller. Layouts: Keppel & TCA Western, Southern California S-Gaugers, Southern Pacific & Orange County Trackers, Baker Standard Gauge, and Kallgren Standard Gauge. Opening Ceremony Singer (National Anthem): Lori Berg Opening Ceremony Invocation: Ted Trisler Security: Don & Kim Stotts, plus their family and volunteers they recruited Webmaster: Harold Shapiro Sunday Grand Drawing: Fred Kramer www.ttos-swd.org or www.cal-stewart. 3 Meet Photographer: Martin Folb Chief Financial Officer: Rich Kobliner NEW OPERATING LAYOUT AT OUR MONTHLY MEETS You may have noticed it. A couple of our youngsters, namely Peter Ronney and Jake Dierking, are bringing HO and O-gauge track and are setting up an operating layout on four tables just across from my repair table. Both Peter and Jake buy fixer-uppers at our meets and use my tools and parts to fix them. Such activities are very welcome at our Monthly Meets. I encourage our sellers to offer them good deals on trains you are selling. They are our future! IF YOU HAVE NOT RENEWED, PLEASE DO SO We normally are well over 400 Members by this time of the year, but are not for 2017. If you have not renewed, please do so. At $30 per year, it is very much a good deal. Our Membership Secretary, Arlene Berns, will be sending you a reminder notice any day now. Please support Southwestern by continuing your Membership, recruiting new Members, buying our souvenir cars, and attending our monthly Meets and Cal-Stewart. As always, hugs to all, and run your trains often. Larry Pearson, President Officers and Board of Directors & Volunteers 2016-2017 Larry Pearson, President 818-848-2653 lpears1941@att.net Hollis Cotton, Vice President C-S 2016 Co-Chair 818-590-0553 holliscott@aol.com Jerry Moser, Recording Secretary 760-948-7147 cnw400@gmail.com Arlene Berns, Membership Secretary 818-994-4612 aberns2220@sbcglobal.net Rich Kobliner, Treasurer Auction Manager 818-324-2562 rkobliner@yahoo.com George Blanch, Director Auctioneer 818-590-8238 gblanch33@charter.net Calvin Smith, Director Limited Editor 626-792-6594 pesmith6@earthlink.net Fred Kramer, Director Drawing Chair 818-426-6519 fkramer@adcocontainer.com Hal Rothenborg, Director, Club SWD Layout Liaison 626-793-9577 halbigboy4014@gmail.com Jon Pincus, Director C-S Train Races & Demolition Derby 818-606-0624 lindaannejon@aol.com Bruce Lazarus, Director C-S 2016 Registration & Souvenir Car 818-225-1710 lazarusbtwo@roadrunner.com Larry Tozzi, Director 818-416-3810 tozzi399@yahoo.com Harold Shapiro, Volunteer Web Master and Auction Mike Stella, Volunteer C-S 2016 Co-Chair & Assist. Limited Editor 626-332-1823 zwpower@aol.com David Nissen, Volunteer Membership Cards & Files, 2nd Meet Layout Wayne Kraemer, Volunteer Repair Clinic Mike Roman, Volunteer Photographer Monthly Meets Martin Folb, Volunteer Photographer Special Events Tony DeNeve, Volunteer Auction Emmett Van Ness, Volunteer, Auction Bill Elliott, Volunteer, Auction Like Us on Facebook/ttossw Follow Us on Twitter@ttossw
Cal-Stewart 2016 at Fairplex Photos by Martin Folb November 19-20, 2016 At the Registration Desk: Larry Pearson, Bruce Lazarus, Arlene Berns, Elaine Lazarus, and Janitta Keck. The lobby area filled with train hobbiests of all ages waiting for Cal-Stewart 2016 to open. President Larry Pearson welcomes everyone to Cal-Stewart 2016 Lori Berg sang the National Anthem and Rev. Ted Trisler gave an invocation Eager attendees at last enter the Hall Sellers Tables featured a variety of Standard Gauge, O Gauge, & some HO trains, Railroad Memorabilia, Accessories, plus Toys 4
Features at Cal-Stewart 2016 Included Layouts and The Auction plus a Snack Bar Top (l to r) Keppel & TCA Western Floor Layout Southern California S-Gaugers Baker Standard Gauge Middle (l to r) Southern Pacific Division & OrangeCounty Trackers Kallgren Standard Gauge The Auction hummed with auctioneer George Blanch and his faithful crew of Tony DeNeve, Emmett Van Ness, and Bill Elliott. Much interest in a large batch of HO items that went through the Auction!! We had our own Fairplex Snack Bar right in the Hall. 5 The Train Shack s Annual Super Sale Savings to 50% Saturday, March 18th 9am -7pm Sunday, March 19th 11am-6pm 1030 N. Hollywood Way Burbank 1-818-842-3330 Closed Friday March 17th to prepare for the sale
The Sunday Afternoon Prize Drawing Fred Kramer and his ticket sellers sold many tickets for the traditional Cal-Stewart Sunday Afternoon Prize Drawing. Below are the prizes and some of the lucky winners. Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets. Proceeds support the November Cal-Stewart Meet. The Big Prize: the Williams 3 Unit Union Pacific Engine 6
The January 2017 Meet Photos by Mike Roman Good Crowd and Full Tables Club Layout, David Nissen s Layout & HO Layout by Peter Ronney and Jake Dierking 50/50 Drawing Won by Guest -- 3 Consolation Prizes 7
The February 2017 Meet Photos by Mike Roman Busy full hall with tables laden with trains and train related items Above, HO & O Combo layout most welcome addition to our monthly meet -- See Pres. Larry s message Above, Auctioneer George Blanch and Crew at the February live auction. Below, 50/50 Winner and 3 Consolation Prize Win- 8
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Help Needed at Auctions Rich Kobliner, Auction Manager, needs more volunteers to assist with auctioneering, clerking, and cashiering at the Monthly Meets and Cal-Stewart Auctions. Please call Rich at 818-324-2562 to volunteer. MEET DATES 2017 Jan 22 Feb 26 Mar 26 Apr 30 1 May 28 Jun 25 Jul 23 Aug 27 Sep 24 Oct 22 1 Nov 26 Dec 17 1 May/Dec - Open House TOY TRAIN MEET Monthly Train Meets Educational Displays, Trains for Sale, Super Auction, Great Raffle, Operating Layouts, Kids Korner & Snack Bar www.ttos-sp.org For information visit our website or call Jeff Meyer our President at (909) 851-9846 To LA PUBLIC INVITED: 10:00 TO 2:00 DONATION: $5.00 PER PERSON / FAMILY B R O O K H U R ST Brookhurst Community Center 91 Freeway Brookhurst Community Center 2271 W. Crescent Ave. - Anaheim, CA I-5 Crescent Avenue E U C L I D Map not to scale. Grand Canyon Model Railroaders Meets & Events 2017 March 25 - GCMR Meet 9 am Our Saviour s Lutheran Church 1212 E Glendale Ave., Phoenix April 22 - GCMR Meet 9 am Our Saviour s Lutheran Church 1212 E Glendale Ave., Phoenix May 20 - GCMR Meet 9 am Our Saviour s Lutheran Church 1212 E Glendale Ave., Phoenix Info: Call President Dave Brown 480-650-5336 Visit Website: www.gcmrr.org Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum Open 2nd and 4th Sundays of Month 12:30 p.m to 4:30 p.m. with Special Dates in December No Meetings in July and August Check Website for Information 3975 N. Miller Avenue Tucson, AZ 85705-2275 E-mail: TrainShow@gpdToyTrainMuseum.com Website: www.gpdtoytrainmuseum.com 2017 Meet Dates Jan. 21 July 22 Feb. 25 Aug 26 Mar. 25 Sept. 23 Apr. 22 Oct. 28 May 20 Nov. ** June* Dec. 16 *TCA Convention **Cal-Stewart Meet Around the Corner & Down the Street! Train Collectors Association Western Division Invites you to our Monthly Train Meets Fellowship, Free Member Trading Tables Great FREE Quarterly Auctions Operating Layout and Superior Yearly Drawing Prize Coffee/Donuts & Sandwiches Available FREE Admission 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. More Information visit our website: www.tcawestern.org OR CALL Steve Eastman, President at (714) 319-9483 Arcadia Senior Center, 405 S. Santa Anita Ave., Arcadia Park, Arcadia, CA. (Look for the TCA Sign) AGTTA 2017 Meet Schedule Meets at 2017 St. Dunstan s Episcopal Church Jan 12 July 13 6556 Park Ridge Blvd. Feb 9 Aug 3 San Diego, CA 92120 Mar 9 Sept 14 Generally Second Thursday of Wed,Apr 12 Oct 12 each Month May 11 Nov 9 3 pm to 8 pm Sellers, How To Clinic, Special Saturday All Day Meets Bus Meeting & Show & Tell June 17 Dec 9 For more details visit Website: www.agtta.com 11 01/17-12/17
Daylight Savings Time Begins March 12th Move your clocks 1 hour forward Meets Held at Arcadia Masonic Center 50 W. Duarte Road, Arcadia 91007 Sunday: March 12 Open House Meet Sellers Setup & Members 10 a.m. Tables still $5.00: Call Hollis Cotton to reserve: 818-590-0553 Auction Sellers: Call George Blanch at 818-590-8238 Public 10 a.m. Admission $5.00 Children under 21 free with paid adult T.T.O.S.SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION A Non-Profit Corporation Larry Pearson, President 1-818-848-2653 www.cal-stewart.org www.ttos-sw.org Bickley Printing Co. 25 So. Fair Oaks Ave. Pasadena, CA 91105 TIME DATED MATERIALS FIRST CLASS Celebrating Our 31st Year!! The Train Shack Service Buy Sell Trade One of the Largest Selection of Model Trains in Southern California MTH, LIONEL, WEAVER, K-LINE, THIRD RAIL ATLAS, LGB, MARKLIN, KATO, ATHEARN ROUNDHOUSE, WALTHERS, THOMAS THE TANK & BRIO Large Selection of G, O, HO, N, & Z Scales Paints, Tools, Books, Videos, Audios, Scenery Collectibles, Old & New Collections bought Custom Layouts built AUTHORIZED FACTORY SERVICE for LGB, Lionel, MTH, & Marklin 1030 North Hollywood Way Burbank, California 91505 (818) 842-3330 Outside (818), call (800) 572-9929 FAX (818) 842-4562 www.trainshack.com 01/16-12/16 Southwestern Division Meets and Events Dates 2017 January 8 (second Sunday) February 12 (second Sunday) March 12 (second Sunday) April 2 (first Sunday) May 7 (first Sunday) June 4 (first Sunday) July 9 (second Sunday) August 5, Saturday-- Annual Picnic at LA Live Steamers September 10 (second Sunday) October 1 (first Sunday) November 17 setup; 18 & 19 -- Cal-Stewart at Glendale Civic Auditorium December 3 (first Sunday) Welcome New Members Southwestern Division is pleased to welcome the following new members: Steve Bidermann, Richard Block, Brian Boyd, Ray Danowski, Lee Dudacek, Larry Feldra, John Haskektt, Huy Nguyen, Eric Nissen, Juan Rocha, John Smatlak, and Jerome Washington. 01/2017 thru 12/2017 We hope you can attend the monthly meets and also the Annual Picnic and Cal-Stewart. The Southwestern Limited is published 4 times a year.